Monday, June 23, 2014

13th Greek Championship in Solving, 2014

The 13th Greek Championship in Solving Chess Problems this year went to Patras, Greece, first time away from Athens.
It was organized by The Patras Chess Group (SOP) and was hosted by the Chamber of Achaia in a very nice conference room, and there were 24 participants. Available time for solving : 3 hours.

Surname Name

nr.
1

nr.
2

nr.
3

nr.
4

nr.
5

nr.
6

nr.
7

nr.
8

nr.
9

nr.
10

nr.
11

nr.
12

total

mins

rank

up to
18

w

Mendrinos Nikos

5

5

5

5

4

5

5

1

0

35

180

1

Papastavropoulos Andreas

5

5

5

5

4

5

0

29

180

2

Konidaris Panagiotis

5

5

0

3

5

0

4

3

25

180

3

Spyropoulos Giorgos

5

5

5

0

0

5

0

0

20

180

4

Spiliadis Athanasios

5

5

4

1

2

0

17

180

5

Fougiaxis Harry

5

5

5

1

16

180

6

Triantos Konstantinos

5

5

5

0

0

0

15

167

7

v

Betsos Titos

5

5

5

15

180

8, 9

Pountzas Chrysanthos

5

5

0

5

0

15

180

8, 9

Alexandrou Anastasios

5

5

4

0

14

180

10

Masouros Panagiotis

5

0

5

0

0

4

14

180

11

Malataras Gerasimos

5

5

3

0

0

13

180

12

v

Athanasopoulos Kyriakos

5

5

0

10

170

13

v

Vaggopoulos Anastasios

5

0

3

0

0

0

8

180

14

Stamatopoulos Apostolos

5

0

0

0

2

7

161

15

v

Zaronikas Dimitris

5

0

0

2

0

7

168

16

v

Manolas Emmanuel

0

0

4

0

0

3

7

180

17

Kalyva Kyriaki

5

0

0

0

0

0

0

5

171

18, 20

v

v

Mavromati Aggeliki

5

0

0

5

171

18, 20

v

Kakoulidis Vasilis

5

5

171

18, 20

v

Betsos Nicolas-Evaggelos

5

0

0

0

0

5

173

21

v

Stefanatos Gerasimos

5

0

0

0

0

0

0

5

180

22

v

Stamatopoulos Giorgos

0

0

0

180

23

v

Here you may see the problems, selected by the judge Ioannis Garoufalidis, who said the problems were easy because he decided to lower the level a bit so that more solvers can solve them, and their solutions.

With 5 points per problem, solving 12 problems you get 60 points maximum.

Exercises of the day

Every day the website www.shredderchess.com offers to the readers of the blogs three easy chess exercises. They are given in three levels of difficulty, (L1, L2, and L3), and you may give the solution by moving the pieces with the mouse pointer. Below the diagram is then shown if the answer is correct or not.

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